A quick note: the fear that the United States might have lost whatever edge had made it great was a common theme in presidential elections throughout the Cold War. Eisenhower accused Truman of allowing Communism to infiltrate not only foreign nations but the American government; Kennedy accused Republicans of allowing a "missile gap" to form between the United States and the Soviet Union; Nixon declared that he would return "law and order" to the nation in the wake of the Martin Luther King assassination and anti-war protest movements that had hindered Johnson during his final year in office; and even the quote "Make America Great Again!" was originally a piece of the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, who highlighted the economic failures of the 1970s. Most presidential campaigns during the Cold War included, in some way (and sometimes in central ways), the assertion that America has lost its greatness.